OTHER WORKS BY CHARLES EGAN, ESQ.

I.

OBSERVATIONS ON THE NEW FRENCH LAW RELATIVE TO PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS. With the Statutes now

in force relating to Patents in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies.-Price 5s.

"The work is one which ought to be attentively studied; and whoever does study it, must agree with the writer, who, in his final remarks" says―

"We cannot conclude without reverting to the liberal encouragement extended to the emanations of genius in foreign nations, which fully appears when contrasted with that restrictive policy vouchsafed to inventors in the British dominions. Indeed we are inclined to doubt the soundness of that fiscal regulation which places so withering a check on the exertions of ingenious minds as that inflicted by exacting from the talented and enterprising sums so enormous as those enumerated in the foregoing evidence, quoted from a report of the parliamentary committee. In the words of an able writer, 'It is to be feared that many valuable inventions never see the light, owing to the present patent laws in this country. The most inventive men are not always the most opulent. It is no uncommon thing for a person to spend many years, and perhaps his all, in maturing an invention which may fully answer his expectations; and after he has brought it thus far, he must make up his mind either to publish it and let others reap the benefits, or to conceal, and probably consign it to oblivion. There is no alternative, if he be unable to raise £500 or £600, which go principally into the pockets of official people, who do nothing for it, and who do not need it.' Thus it is a lamentable fact, that the very laws intended for the protection of inventions have, in too many instances, quite the contrary effect-Nevertheless, let us hope that the day is not distant when the wisdom of the legislature will fully manifest itself by more liberally protecting, than heretofore, the issues and effusions of British genius; and there is little doubt, considering the present extraordinary progress of scientific attainments, that if the cost of obtaining patents was reduced, the number of grants annually taken out, would be increased fourfold.'"-The Dublin Pilot.

"A very able work on the Patent Laws."-Opinion of the Attorney General, Sir William W. Follett.

II.

THE LAW OF EXTRADITION,

Comprising the Treaties between England and Foreign Nations for the mutual surrender of Persons fugitive from Justice, with the Statutes and decisions relative thereto.-Price 2s. 6d.

"This lucid little treatise should be in the hands of business men of all countries."-Colonial Magazine.

"Mr. Egan has entitled himself to the thanks of the Profession for this publication, in which the entire subject is handled with much research and acumen." -The Law Times.

"A work which I have perused with great interest."-Baron Platt.

“A subject which the recent Treaties have made of practical importance.”Baron Park.

"A useful digest of all available information on the subject."-The Westminster and Foreign Review.

"This work should be in the library of every Lawyer, and on the desk of every Merchant."-The Dublin Pilot.

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information, which he has judiciously arranged in a comparatively small compass. He has added reflections and suggestions of his own, which deserve great consideration."-The Court Journal.

"There is not in the empire a commercial or monied man who is not concerned in this Extradition question."-The Catholic Magazine.

"To commercial countries in particular, the Law of Extradition is of the first importance, and this writer displays a masterly knowledge of his subject, and in a short compass condenses the erudition of the highest authorities on International Law."-Douglas Jerrold's Weekly Newspaper.

III.

THE LAW RELATIVE TO BENEFIT BUILDING SOCIETIES, With Notes and Comments.-Price 2s.

"It is expedient to afford encouragement and protection to such Societies, and the property obtained therewith."-Statute 6 und 7, William IV, cap. 32.

"Mr. Egan's purpose in the manual before us has been to lay before the reader, in popular language, so that all may understand, the provisions of the Acts for the regulation of Building Societies, with the legal decisions which have arisen upon the most important points. He has accomplished his task with ability, and produced a hand-book of the law which will be found serviceable to all parties interested in Benefit Building Societies."-The Law Times.

This book'ought to be in the possession of every one of that now very numerous and rapidly increasing class for whom it has been written. The remarks upon minors becoming Members of Building Societies-upon the duties and responsibilities of Solicitors-and the suggestions upon Assurance, are worthy of the deepest consideration."-The Assurance Gazette.

"A useful manual for all parties interested in the associations to which it refers."-The Journal of Commerce.

"A work such as Mr. Egan has produced is extremely opportune. In a limited compass he conveys all the requisite information appertaining to the subject."-The Morning Herald.

"Over the doubts that have arisen on various clauses of the Building Societies Act, the Author has thrown much light as regards the purchase (under the Act) of Copyhold as well as Freehold property; Stamp Duties affecting Mortgages, Insurances, and other important points."-The Shipping Gazette.

"Every important point connected with the law of those beneficial societies is commented upon and clearly defined. The exemption from the operation of the income tax, which it was thought these societies enjoyed under the 5th and 6th of Vic. c. 35 sec. 88, is shown to be a fallacy, the case of Caigell v. The Durham Building Society,' being definite on that point. The right of the holders of the houses of Building Societies to vote at parliamentary elections is shown to have been confirmed by the Court of Common Pleas, notwithstanding it was contended that these societies came within purview of an act (the 7th and 8th Wm. III, c. 25, sec. 7) against unduly multiplying votes. In fact, every instruction is given by the author on any dubious section, which makes this book important as a work of reference to those persons who are in any way connected with Building Societies."-The Mark Lane Express.

"An excellent guide, well indexed, so that by a glance through the several heads, one can find at once the law in reference to any particular point appertaining to Building Societies."-Catholic Magazine.

"A book which should be in the hands of every person connected with Building Societies, whether as Solicitor, Secretary, Manager, or as ordinary Member." -The National.

"This writer's opinions have become authorities on the matters he undertakes to treat of; and there is much intrinsic merit and ability displayed in this work. Among other conflicting points here handled is the one, whether Building Societies can safely accept of Copyhold property as a security from their Members? Both Mr. Brodie and Mr. J. Tidd Pratt say they cannot safely do so; Mr. Egan's

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opinion however is otherwise; and he supports it with great apparent success. This book ought to be known by all connected with those Societies.-The Weekly Times.

"A cheap and portable edition of the Acts regulating Benefit Building Societies."-The Builder.

"Mr. Egan has digested and elucidated the different Acts of Parliament and decisions of the Judges as applying to such prudential unions. These societies are springing up in many of our colonies, and when we consider the vast number of persons who are daily becoming more and more interested in Building Societies, the necessity for such a condensed legal treatise is the more apparent. What adds to the value of this book is, that there is an excellent and very full index, which facilitates prompt reference."-The Colonial Magazine.

REMARKS ON BUILDING SOCIETIES,

AND THE INTERESTS OF THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES

AS CONECTED THEREWITH.

Entertaining a high opinion of the value of these associations, we have given our humble, but zealous assistance towards the realisation of objects so desirable as those contemplated by the legislature, in passing the "Act for the Regulation of Building Societies;" and the following remarks, which were delivered at a meeting of one of these metropolitan societies, lately held in the hall of the Freemasons' Tavern, London, appear so worthy of extended dissemination through the press, that we transfer them to our columns:

"In the absence of the president of the society (Sir B. Hall, Bart.) C. Egan, Esq. was called to the chair. After the preliminary business of the evening had been gone through, he addressed the meeting and dwelt on the utility of forming societies of this kind. The learned gentleman observed, that the necessity for, and the advantages derivable from, the establishment of these associations, were so obvious, as not to require lengthened comment; they were morally and socially beneficial, because they tended to engender provident and economical habits among the middle and humbler classes; enabled them to obtain property, and to participate in many other advantages acquirable in a wealthy and well-regulated state. Various associations had been formed from time to time, to effect the abolition of grievances; but what grievance, he would ask, was more general, more urgent, more galling (Hear, hear) than that of being permanently liable to the payment of high, exorbitant, oppressive rents? Take the case of the humble and industrious man, who, after having duly discharged his tenural obligations for years, has been overtaken by disease or other calamity, his rent being in arrear, he is summarily driven from his tenement, his wife and children are cast, houseless and homeless, on the wide world, "doomed in scanty poverty to roam," and himself probably incarcerated in a prison, for the non-payment of the law-expenses attendant upon his contumelious ejectment. These associations prove a safeguard against such disasters; they enable the prudent man, by the payment of a small sum periodically, to secure for himself the sole possession of a property, and fre quently for a less sum than he would have had to pay in the same time for the rent of a temporary holding; enable him to obtain possession of property on which he could raise money with facility in cases of emergency; and which property, if unencumbered, might, in the event of his death, afford a provision for his mourning widow and sorrowing orphans. To leaseholders also, are not these associations of vital import? Is it not of great moment to such parties, paying a heavy rental, either generally or in shape of ground-rents, that they should acquire the unrestricted dominion over that property which they hold under a limited demise? The advantages, therefore, of being enabled, by a prudent and economic course, to obtain the sole ownership of property, of raising money upon it, or of leaving it as a provision for their families, must be too apparent to the minds of all thinking men to require any depth of argument to demonstrate. When we add to these the additional advantage, the glorious privilege of being entitled to exercise the right of franchise, to have a voice in the choice of those legislative representatives who are to make the laws by which all classes of society are to be governed, no man can doubt the value of the immunities derivable from a parti

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cipation in the benefits of these associations. (Hear, hear.) Those advantages, great and desirable though they be, cannot be secured without the exercise of prudence and vigilance on the part of the members themselves. Prudence, in selecting individuals of character and known worth as their directors; and persons of ability and probity as their managers, referees, and other officers. Vigilance, in not voting away their funds incautiously, and taking care, when so voted, that they are not deflected from their legitimate purposes. The amelioration of the condition, and the general improvement of the industrial classes, are dictated alike by prudence as well as benevolence; and therefore it is not surprising to find, that in this enlightened age, in this, one of the most civilized nations in the world, a wise and paternal government have, by a special enactment (the Stat. 6 and 7 Wm. IV. cap. 32), held out an inducement to the industrious and the prudent to acquire the possession of property suitable to their respective conditions, and which enactment also affords them a legal protection for the enjoyment of that property, when so acquired." (Cheers.)-Monmouthshire Merlin.

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LITTLETON'S TENURES.

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THE PRINCIPLES OF EQUITY.

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